Maou Gun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta

During the metastases on the Zenovian side, a woman with burning hair was waiting.

A woman wearing a tailored white blouse, whose redhead can be seen.

It was the first reunion in months, but the phase seemed to be unchanged and rigid, and she seemed like a woman with no loopholes.

However, it doesn't even look like it's done.

What else?

If the words of Hans, the butler I am about to hold, are true, it seems that Zenobia is now in crisis since its establishment.

I asked straight in.

"Is it true that Miss Julia's life is in danger?

Eltoria, the head of the Trade Union, nods slowly as she stares straight into my eyes.

I didn't want to affirm it, it looked like a look, but she's a realist decentralized kind of merchant.

He gave me the facts in the end.

"... oh, you're right. Unfortunately."

That's what Eltoria said.

"What are you talking about? Shall I show you to our hall?"

And he recommended it.

I'm certainly not as drunk a man as I could ever be holding a muddy, bitter man in my 50s.

When I entrusted Hans, the butler, to Eltoria's servant, I followed her.

The Eltorian Hall was as luxurious as any other.

Anemone, the elf I brought with me,

"I've never seen such a splendid museum!

and his eyes are round.

"Compared to this, my building in Ivaris would be a digging shed, wouldn't it?

and jokingly returned it, she said,

"Yes."

and answer instantly.

"... you're an honest daughter"

Look up at Eltoria's mansion just like Anemone.

Well, sure, her feelings are shooting at the target.

Eltoria Octave, the head of the Trade Union, is one of the best in Zenobia.

The residence also deserves its financial strength and is no different from the villa of the royal marquis nobility.

"No, more than that, I guess"

I've seen some royal and aristocratic villas, but it would be a handful of them in this other world that could create a mansion of more splendid construction than this.

I wonder if we can see that if we occupy Reese?

With that in mind, I was led to the guest room at Eltoria's mansion.

I'm advised to sit on the couch.

Follow it.

I'm recommended by the Eltorian maid of honor but I'll give her the robe as it is, but there's no problem.

To Zenobia he came as a 'human'.

"The Robe of Immortality" and "The Mask of Change" are left in Ivaris.

Since the identity is revealed to Eltoria, it is not a problem to dress up as a Demon, but it would still be easier to avoid a Demon wandering in the city of man.

By the way, Lilith has also ordered me to hide my tail, and I have my hat deeply on so that I can't see the horns.

I'm just the type of person who opens his mouth wide and talks, so from time to time, I see fangs.

It's easy to tell this girl not to talk, but it's impossible to make her do it, so I won't point it out.

The rest is also a problem with the brown skin that is characteristic of the Succubus (Sakiyubas), but there are many of them in the South and they are not that noticeable.

On my way to this hall, I saw several brown-skinned people.

It seems to be a human being in an island city in the southern ocean.

In the first place, the maid who brought the tea also has brown skin.

"There won't be any problems"

Yep, squeaking in my heart, I did my gaze to the Lord of this Hall with my mouth on the tea served.

When she similarly mouthed the tea, she cut out the story.

"Hans tells me it's my Zenobia, no, my daughter's crisis."

I answer.

"Yeah, of course, if you could come in a bandage that seeped blood, even if it wasn't spoken for, you'd soon find yourself in a predicament."

I ask my sincerity with a bitter laugh.

"Just before Lord Hans lost his mind, he said that Miss Julia must be sacrificed as she is, is that true?

For once, I reaffirm the meaning of the last word left by Hans the Butler.

Eltoria says bitterly, unfortunately.

"Sacrifice is disturbing, and it's a preemptive or demonic thought."

Sacrifice to God, or to the Evil God.

This world is a different world of medieval swords and magic, although it is a silly way of thinking if you look at it from a human with memories of a previous life. No, the extra nature (s) are bad for having an alchemist who sacrifices the creature to 'actual' and drowns in witchcraft.

My esteemed former boss, Cefiro, is also dedicated to sacrifice and carrying out suspicious experiments when he scratches off the neck of a sheep at night.

It's the same in the human world.

The number of suspicious sorcerers who dedicate their lives to sacrificing, performing secret magic, and performing miracles should not be so different from demonic sorcerers.

It's just...

"Though I thought that was just about the sorcerer neighborhood. I've never heard of merchants giving their lives to realists, to the temple of Amenica, goddess of commerce."

Eltoria answers the question clearly.

"It's about a merchant on land."

She goes on to say that.

"We Zenobian merchants are often sailors at the same time as we are merchants. You know what I mean?

"Yeah, well, this Zenobia is an important relay point for island cities in the South, commonly known as the Spice Islands. There must be a lot of sailors."

"I actually used to be on a boat once. Hans, the butler, ran around the five seas."

"My lord Hans told me all about the martial arts."

It seems to me that it was Eltoria herself who rebuilt the Octave family, which once nearly collapsed, with her taking command of a large sailboat, crossing dangerous waters, scratching large quantities of scarce spices, spiritual materials, etc., and selling it, making it the Octave family, the ancestors of Zhongxing.

"Let me tell you from a human aboard a ship, sailors are out-of-the-box, superstitious. Do it, don't put dogs on the boat, don't bring wheels on the boat, don't bring baked sweets on the boat. When I was a captain, my biological daughter was a captain."

"Each, because what's the point?

"Neptus, the sea god, is looking like a cat, so he says no dogs should be allowed on it. Besides, it's a sailor's lesson to get cats on board to protect grain loaded on ships from rats."

"Cats hunt rats."

Eltoria nods.

"I can still understand that far, but the reason why you shouldn't bring a wheel into a ship is too funny. You know why?

"Come on, I can't even imagine"

"The reason is because we don't get along well. It's because it reminds me of a hole in the bottom of the ship."

"I see.... that's superstitious again"

"No, I don't mind you clearly saying it's funny. That's what I recognize, too. And baked sweets too. You shouldn't bring this to the ship for reasons that make you laugh."

and Eltoria leaks a thirsty laugh "haha".

"The reason for this is that the sweets are sheer. When the sea breaks down, sailors have trouble. That's why it's strictly forbidden to bring it into the ship."

I heard that word. Satti is blushing her face.

Probably, but the last time I got on the boat, I brought in cookies.

Regardless, there is no rough fact that the sea is covered with it.

I mean, it's a complete superstition, but he still firmly believes in superstition.

Would Eltoria be for a former sailor, supplemented by a tone that would defend them?

"But, well, I don't know how they feel either. Sailors and death are like living side by side all the time. One of the most high-mortality occupations in Zenobia is sailors. Superstition or edge. I know what it's like to want to rely on it."

I agree with that.

Even in previous life, sailors are a dangerous profession.

Regardless of the large tanker, it is not strange whenever a small fishing boat overturns, and in fact, somewhere, as every day, ships are wrecked and many lives are lost.

In the first place, the profession of sailor is highly paid. Some captains make more money than the commanders of mercenary regiments around there. Paying them high wages is also because the profession of sailor is so dangerous and profitable.

Even in previous life there were times called the Great Sailing Era.

When the fleet departed from the city of Lisbon, Portugal, which made its pioneer, finished its journey around the world and stopped at the port, it was said that the number of ships and sailors left was extremely small. However, the spices loaded in large quantities on that ship came with a price tens of times higher than the gold coins that had been loaded at the time of departure from the port.

So I made enough profit to buy back a bunch of fleets.

Humans in the Great Voyage period were also terribly superstitious, and those next to them would want to live in straw.

- I don't know how that feels, but now, what is the causal link between that and Miss Julia being sacrificed?

I decided to ask.

Eltoria answers me with pleasure.

"Neptus, the sea god, wants the blood of a pureblood maiden every 20 years, this is one of the inheritances that has long been passed down to Zenobia"

"So every 20 years I was killing my maiden and throwing her away in the ocean," you mean?

Eltoria nods slowly, but immediately adds the words.

"Whatever, it's ridiculous. That was a long time ago, and there is no indication that that ritual has taken place in the last 100 years or so. As far as I can tell, though."

"Then why is Miss Julia dedicated to sacrifice?

To my simple question, Eltoria answers her fingers.

"He's the reason..."

Eltoria points to my rear.

At the end of her white finger was a single painting.

There were depictions of wild seas and snake-like creatures that roared wildly.

Look at that painting. I leak it pompous.

The name of that picturesque creature.

"Sea Serpent"?

Eltoria didn't say "correct," she said.

"There's just an overlap between the legendary time of Cesar Pent's activities and the time of dedicating her maiden to sacrifice. So my daughter was chosen as a candidate for sacrifice."

When Eltoria gave the look and trick that it was troublesome, she concluded so.

Surely that would be troublesome.

When I sympathized with Eltoria, I just started spinning my wits about how to solve that challenge.